Adding subview to MKMapView that's above the map but below the annotation views?

Question

For an app I\'m building, I have a custom \"old map\" effect PNG that I\'d like to overlay on the MKMapView view. Unfortunately, neither way I\'ve tried to do this is exactly ri

Answer 1

It's pretty old, but maybe still relevant for some of you.

I wanted to make the map darker, but not the annotation views.

What i did was very simple and i don't yet know if it has some fallbacks...

I put a UIView with a black-transparent background above the MKMapView, and then added the following code:

- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didAddAnnotationViews:(NSArray *)views
{
    for (MKAnnotationView *view in views) {
        view.center = [self.mapView convertCoordinate:view.annotation.coordinate toPointToView:self.viewDark];
        [self.viewDark addSubview:view];
    }
}

Hope it helps.. and of course - if you find any issues about this solution please let me know :)

Edit #1: Forgot to mention that self.viewDark should have userInteraction disabled.

Edit #2: Another thing that helped me is setting self.viewDark's autoresizesSubviews to NO.